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Comment on Emacs and Slime highlight changes and how to control it by Dan Ballard

Dan Ballard — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:49:06 +0000

It took a bit of time to get used to at first. But now I kind of like it. Except the console colors need tweaking because right now they are useless.

Comment on Emacs and Slime highlight changes and how to control it by Brian Carper

Brian Carper — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:27:15 +0000

Oh, I see. That sounds very useful. I need to grab a new slime off of CVS.

Comment on Emacs and Slime highlight changes and how to control it by Dan Ballard

Dan Ballard — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:10:10 +0000

ha, a typo… I think I blindly let Firefox’s spell checker changed unrecognized ‘uncompiled’ to a recognized ‘compiled’

It is highlighting of uncompiled changes to a file. My bad, and fixed. Thanks for noticing.

Basically it’s cool because you can end up with lots of uncompiled code in a file as Slime/Emacs lets you compile single functions in a file so it’s just a nice visual reminder of what’s been compiled and what hasn’t when you go to test stuff.

Comment on Emacs and Slime highlight changes and how to control it by Brian Carper

Brian Carper — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:58:14 +0000

What does “highlighting of compiled changes to a file” mean? Sounds interesting.

Comment on I just wrote my first buffer o… by Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:42:00 +0000

Yay Security class!

Comment on C++ is getting Lambda expressions! (and Cadbury creme egg cakes) by Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:40:29 +0000

Hahaha!! Cadbury Creme Eggs as replacement real eggs? That’s SO AWESOME.

Oh, and Lambda expressions are pretty cool too.

Comment on Installing chrootable Gentoo on a GP2X by muffin

muffin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:49:39 +0000

Hi, I think that the best way to do this is connecting an external USB hard drive to the GP2X:

http://spritesmods.com/?art=gp2xusb

Normally the “C compiler cannot create executables” error is because you haven’t setup the gentoo correctly.

Thank you for this page. All this is great and I hope you could give it another try…

Comment on Rsync for backup: a surprising easy and good solution by Dan Ballard

Dan Ballard — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:25:33 +0000

Awesome, thanks

Comment on Rsync for backup: a surprising easy and good solution by transacid

transacid — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:05:09 +0000

The -e ssh is not necessary. From the rsync manpage:
” -e, –rsh=COMMAND This option allows you to choose an alternative remote shell program to use for communication between the local and remote copies of rsync. Typically, rsync is configured to use ssh by default, but you may prefer to use rsh on a local network.”
cheers

Comment on Ubuntu breaks xorg-server… again by Dan Ballard

Dan Ballard — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:35:21 +0000

Yeah, well on Gentoo at least the buggy server never made it out of unstable, really, a perfect example of the stable/unstable system. Grante it probably should never have even made it that far. :/

It’s interesting though to see this hit just about everyone (anyone know about Redhat/Fedora?).

And as for the security advisory and bugzilla entries, I’m sure there are a lot of regular desktop users who when there system breaks, there first thought isn’t “oh, I should check bugzilla”. They’d probably check the website and the google and if they are a bit more savvy, they might hit up the forums or the planet.